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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against IBM System Storage products. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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IBM Spectrum Control

Add support for Hyper-V

I have a bank who is a current Control user. They have recently migrated from VMWare to Hyper-V. They used Control with VMWare and would like to have the same hypervisor support for Hyper-V.
22 days ago in IBM Spectrum Control 1 Submitted

Show mapped host names in the exported report instead of displaying only host numbers, so all hosts remain visible.

In IBM Spectrum Control Under Device > Volumes, the Host column displays clickable host numbers (e.g., 2–3) that show the mapped hosts. However, in the exported report, only the numbers are displayed and the host details are not accessible. The...
15 days ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Submitted

AI-Powered Cross-Resource Storage Risk Correlation and Early-Warning Insights for IBM Spectrum Control

I propose adding AI-Powered Cross-Resource Storage Risk Correlation and Early-Warning Insights to IBM Spectrum Control to help organizations gain deeper visibility into their storage environments and proactively identify emerging operational risks...
19 days ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Submitted

have Spectrum Control as an appliance (ova package)

The uprade process to upgrade Spectrum Control to a newer version is too complex and fails all the time. Please consider deploying it as an appliance. An OVA package provides a pre-configured, optimized environment, reducing setup time from hours ...
10 months ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Submitted

Increase in the number of components analyzed simultaneously

Hello Development team. I would like to suggest an improvement in the Spectrum Control. When some situation that needs a deeper analysis happens, like a performance problem, it is useful to see the behavior of the components. At this point, the Sp...
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Submitted

Support ISC running on VMware ESXi 8.0

According to the support page, VMware ESXi 5.5.x, 6.0.x, 6.5.x, 6.7.x, 7.0.x are supported but not ESXi 8.0.x IBM Spectrum Control 5.4.x - Server Platforms https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/ibm-spectrum-control-54x-server-platforms#shyperv For lon...
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 1 Planned for future release

IBM Spectrum Control - Alerts - Ability to Schedule Non-triggering Time Windows

Customers have backup windows during which a lot of alerts are triggered. Too many alerts causes customers to ignore all the alerts altogether even those that are triggerred during normal business hours. It would be great if we had the capability ...
almost 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 2 Future consideration

Spectrum Scale performance data collection with non root user in Spectrum Control

When Spectrum Scale/ESS storage is added using non root user, performance data shows "Not Supported".Only root user can pull performance data in current design. There have been some requirement using "non root" user.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 3 Future consideration

Walk in the park - step forward and back in performance graphs

Ease of use. To easily compare todays graph with yesterdays.
3 months ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Submitted

Monitoring portset from Spectrum

We would like to be able to monitor port sets from Spectrum to view usage statistics for the ports within a port set, and, if possible, to generate graphs showing utilization rates, bandwidth, IOPS, and various other metrics.
6 months ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Submitted